2014 NFL Regular Season

[Nickdfresh]

According to CBS News, there is a warrant for Adrian Peterson's arrest for charges of child abuse in Texas...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

switches n shit

[Kristy]

According to CBS News, there is a warrant for Adrian Peterson's arrest for charges of child abuse in Texas.

Gawd bless the N.F.L.

[Nitro Express]

When I was in college, I saw the college football players get all sorts of special treatment. They got new cars and other perks to play. The university provided special tutors. More than one of these gilded warriors were thugs who really had no business being at a university. It's all about the ends justifies the means and this pollution has flowed into the NFL. When character no longer matters as long as the piece of meat performs on the field this is what you get.

[Nitro Express]

In the 1970's most players were happy as hell to be making a decent living playing a sport they loved. By the late 1980's, the players were going on strike because they didn't think they got paid enough. The mindset has gotten worse ever since. I lost interest in the whole thing. Fuck the players and fuck the owners. They all suck.

[Kristy]

And people say there is no longer any truth in advertising.

[Nitro Express]

I blame OJ for everything. We went from Joe Namath splashing on Aqua Velva to butchering women. The NFL is like fucking Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan now.

[cadaverdog]

In the 1970's most players were happy as hell to be making a decent living playing a sport they loved. By the late 1980's, the players were going on strike because they didn't think they got paid enough. The mindset has gotten worse ever since. I lost interest in the whole thing. Fuck the players and fuck the owners. They all suck.

Greed has just about ruined professional sports. They can afford to pay players the kind of money they pay them now because there's still enough people out there that can afford to pay what they charge for tickets, parking and the other expenses that come with them like food and gas. That's not going to be the case in a few more years the way things are going now.

[Nitro Express]

Greed has just about ruined the whole country.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

And people say there is no longer any truth in advertising.

skinny jeans!

[Nickdfresh]

The Seahawks mascot looks a tad randy

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Righteous, unbiased NFL Refs fistbump after Broncos' TD

Rubbed the wrong way

Video of gesture goes viral on internet

By Jay Skurski | News Sports Reporter | @JaySkurski

on December 7, 2014 - 11:33 PM

, updated December 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM


The Buffalo Bills feel like they’re getting a raw deal from NFL officials.

That was the sentiment in the team’s locker room Monday, less than 24 hours after a 24-17 loss to the Denver Broncos in which the Bills were penalized 11 times.

“You’re going to get penalties, things like that, but I’ve never played on a team that got treated the way the Bills get treated out there,” cornerback Corey Graham said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Cornerback Stephon Gilmore said he too thinks officials are unfairly targeting the Bills. As evidence, he referenced a conversation he had with one before the start of Sunday’s game.

“The ref came up to me before the game saying, ‘I’m watching you,’ as far me holding and stuff like that,” Gilmore said. “I’m like, ‘Why you coming up to me?’ You’ve just got to put it behind you and play.”

It wasn’t just the flags that had the Bills in a lather Monday.

A Vine video of the CBS broadcast shot by 20-year-old Orchard Park resident Liam Speyer showed umpire Carl Paganelli and line judge John Hussey share a fist bump after Broncos running back C.J. Anderson crossed the goal line for a touchdown.

The clip went viral overnight – and caught the attention of a few prominent members of the Bills on social media.

“No excuse for my performance but can’t win playing 16 vs 11 thought I seen it all,” safety Aaron Williams tweeted Sunday night. Defensive end Mario Williams also posted the video to his Instagram account, saying, “Some people just have more fun than others obviously!”

On Monday, Bills players were in agreement that, at the least, it was a “bad look” for the league.

“You never know what they were doing it for, but it’s kind of a bad look,” Gilmore said. “We can’t get into it as players. We’ve just got to play the game.”

Former NFL official Mike Pereira, a current commentator for FOX Sports, harshly criticized anyone who had an issue with the gesture by officials, saying it was “insane” anyone could have construed it as a sign they wanted the Broncos to win.

“It’s one thing to be criticized, but it’s another thing to be criticized by people who have no idea what they’re talking about,” Pereira said.

Graham said Monday he didn’t think the gesture was made in a way to celebrate a Broncos touchdown, but rather as an acknowledgement that the call was made correctly. But that doesn’t mean he’s OK with it.

“It’s not a good look,” he said. “Of course I said the right thing, what I’m supposed to say, but it’s not a good look. Especially when you’ve got Denver scoring a touchdown and guys are fist bumping.”

Bills coach Doug Marrone said he’s seen the video, but wasn’t ready to talk about it publicly.

“Any type of feelings I have, I’ll address with the league,” he said.

“FistBumpGate,” as it’s become known on Twitter, isn’t the Bills’ biggest problem when it comes to officials. The team has now taken 102 penalties on the season, tied for fifth most in the NFL.

Marrone conceded after the game and again Monday that frustration with some of the calls led to mistakes from his team.

“It starts with me,” he said. “I can’t show that level of frustration on the sideline that my players see me going through. Then, it can transfer to them.

“I addressed it with the players today. We can’t have that in order to win games. What’s done is done, whatever it may be, and you need to move on and keep your focus. I’ve got to do a better job of that. That’s my responsibility.”

Graham admitted Monday that his penalty for unnecessary roughness that came during an interception return by Gilmore was justified, but wondered why there wasn’t a flag for the cut block the Broncos player threw that incensed him in the first place.

“It was a penalty on me, I would say, because I retaliated,” he said. “The guy cut me, point blank. … I could have torn my ACL, anything, so it was a reaction by me. I jumped on the guy. I didn’t do nothing crazy, but I grabbed the guy. … I’m not saying it wasn’t a penalty on me, but what happened to the cut block?”

Graham’s penalty cost the Bills 36 yards of field position. Earlier in the game, 40 yards of field position was wiped out when Kyle Williams was called for holding during Graham’s interception return.

“To sit here and say, ‘No, we’re not undisciplined,’ would be speaking out of both sides of my mouth,” Marrone said. “I think that the frustration causes us to make mistakes, which is not a form of discipline. That’s all me, there’s no doubt about it. Don’t blame the players. Don’t blame the coaches. That all falls on me as the head coach.”

The Bills have been the beneficiary of 86 called penalties, which is tied for 14th most in the NFL. Their net differential of minus-16 ranks sixth in the NFL in terms of disparity between penalties for and penalties against. The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks lead the league in that regard, with an NFL-high 110 penalties against and just 55 beneficiary calls, a staggering net differential of minus-55.

“Of course we don’t agree with a lot of the calls,” linebacker Nigel Bradham said, “but nothing we can do about it.”

Nothing, that is, except trying to eliminate them. Of the 102 penalties against the Bills, 36 have been pre-snap. Those types of calls, and any of the retaliatory nature, are the kind the Bills can, and need to, curb.

“We’ve got to handle it better,” Gilmore said. “We’re an emotional team. We’ve got to learn how to control our emotions. We know we’ve got the talent to win, and we should have won a couple games that we lost this year.”

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email: jskurski@buffnews.com

[Romeo Delight]

That is brutal

[TFM_Dale]

Are a lot of the penalties on the defense? Schwartz lost control of the Lions and flags flew for years.

[FORD]

This asshole referee in the Seahawks game is doing the worst job of officiating since that piece of shit Bill Leavy stole Super Bowl XL.